The Sun. — London, England, 1838-10-06 00:00:00

PIiICE OF :SUG,ilt. EFFECTS or THE BOUNTY. anis, and T•ble showing the ex-duty pric e of West India Sugar in Mincin g _ comparing the same against the price of foreign sugars : Lon, Oct. 6, I en. T he Gazette thi s d ay quotes the average price o d f British Per cwt. Plantation Muscovado Sugar, exclusive of duty, a' 3os. Old, Ruse:wad° Sugars raised by free labour in the Manilla— which are frequently bought by the Dutch to be refined, and then to be resold in the River Thames—in competi tion with British refined Sugars for exportation —are worth from 20s. to 235. per cwt. ,this week, being 7s. Prr cwt_ less than the average price of West India_Sugars. . 44 &1 ied Sugar, equal in qua li ty to double refined (the menu_ ore :ture of it costing ss. per cwt) has been sold this week ¢ '-le on board) at Deducting shi pp i ng charges... ...... 25. 2d. a dlich is Is. 10d . per cwt dearer only than the Muscovado 31s. 10s1, Igar from which it is made, being a loss to the sugar re- • filer of 33. 2d. per cwt., which the bounty on exportation reimburses him. :Britists Treacle is worth 9s, per cwt: in the foreign markets. The sai) le hat. been sold this day in London, fre? of duty, at 265. per cwt., bei ag an excess of price paid by the British consumer of 17s. per cwt.., in other words 17$. per cwt. on Treacle paid by the poor man towards West India Bounty, and not, as it is erroneously supposed, to- Wat xis revenue. C ciffe= grown on a British Plantation is from 84s. to 90s. per cwt. des ,e,- than the same Coffee would be had it been the produce of a ae n colony —for this reason, the duty on the former is only 6d. per la., on the latter the duty is 15d. per lb. XPORTIN tT IN TLLLIGENCE. Tailo_, WEM RA CES.—MoNDA r. ' ''`'-'oen Stakes of 5 sacs. ; the second to save his stake; with added fro the Fund. cc. ; for horses, &c., of all ages. afii,eats, twice la round and a distance. Air. I : l m.sle/e s b. g. Catamaran, aged, 9st. 81b...White- A1;1 " 6" Afr Deception, aged, 9st Blb - Cooke's b. f. by Herbert Lacy, 3 yrs, 7st. 71b Th ikr Three well-contested h ea t s . e Earth S'lropshire Huat Stakes of 5 soya. each ; th e secon d 1 ," , his stake ; with 15 added for horses tt.c., not thorough red ; three yrs, 9st. allb ; four yrs, 10st. 71b; five yrs, Ist. 71b ; s ' x yrs and aged, 12st. Winners once this year Sibs. extra ; At t 4 ' , ce or more, 101bs. extra. Heats, twice round, Air. Lowe' s Isl. g. St. J o h n , 5 yrs Tukes 1 Ai r G. Clay's Jenny J ones, b y Ludford .• • 1 G. Holland' s c h. m. Hariiet A an T he ii good race. Gall oway Stakes, with a Purse addiA, heats, b . I, wer e won i n three heats by Mr. Jones's Cu once round pid (J), eat th g Mr , D. Davie s ' s Mayfly, and `our others, after a fine ones race. Ili: p Turst.Ar. th ` - -rolV,litori Stakes, with 10 sovs. added,'for horses, Scc., net r ,(4. " L 'gh - brt'tlaieats, twice tound, were won in two heats by Mr. ,`"fatiir:t's,..nD,,unfac.eriaiteieon, beatinedr. Lowe's Beggar Boy, and six others, tie Handicap Stakes Tor the beaten horses, with a Purse added, heat,,lll twice round, were won in three beats by Mr. Holland's ch. th,eliariet (Whitehonse), beating Mr. J. Lowe's Beggar Boy, and ' e othrs, after art excellent race. STONE RACES.-TirEsalr. ''''ee-es, takes of 5 sovs. each with 20 added, for horses that never ...wevi. 10 0 sovs • at any on e ' t i me. H eats, thrice round and a dis- Al ' 9 0 1 7' 1 l A t , ~.•ascoe's br. h. Swainby, 5 yrs, lOst ' 'l,Viand' s b. g• Slashing Harry (h. b. ), aged, 9st.. 51b for h e Hack Stakes of 3 aims. each, and 20 added from the Fund, sl,si-et horses not thorough-bred, bona fide the property of subscribers di ng within fifteen miles of Stone, beats, twice round and a dis -nee, were won by Mr. Meeson's b. h. Conservative, 5 yrs, lOst. 1 21 b ., b kis ting Mr. T iendrick's bl. g. Deceiver, aged, list. 21b; Zdweaards's br. g. by Timour, 4 yrs, lOst. 51b., and another. WEDNESDAT. j - The P ublican's Purse. Heats, thrice round and a distance. M. -.lYasco.'s hr. h. Swainby, 5 yrs, lOst. (51b. extra) ..... 1 14;". row7il'R b. E.. Frailty, 3 yrs, Bst. 31b .SI ' e el , vb. f.. by Emancipation, 3 yrs, 7st. 121 b 4 3 r• Walker's hr. c. Manfred, 3 yrs, Bst. 111 b. A good race. Pu l' od he Hurdle Race Stakes of 3 sovs. each, and 15 added from the dist a ff for horses not thorough-bred, &c., heats, twice round and a .14,..,"s with four leaps in each heat, were won in three heats by t Year' br. g. Smallhopes, 6 yrs, I let. 41b., beating Mr. e w e's bl. g. St. John, 5 yrs, lOst. 131 b. (rider fell), and Mr. endrick's k F bl. g. D ece i ver, aged, llst. 41b. tv,, Fr bl. Handicap, with 15 sovs. added from the Fund, heats, hy-Acehr. ound and a distance, were won in three_ wl-contested heats fl y Walker' s b r . c. Manfred, by .3juley, 3 yrs, beating Mr. 6 gson's b. m. Th e L ady, 6 yrs, Mr. Bennett's b. m. Mary Ann, Y r as and two others. WREXHAM RACES -TuEspir. Th e Produce Stakes of 60 sons. each, h. ft., for the produce of mares covered in 1834. Twice round. 3 Subs. li t- F. R. Price's br. c. Captain Pops, by Priam, Bst. 71b., walked over. il le 13 . r3n-y-Py s Stakes of 25 sovs. each,. for three yrs old colts and fillies. Once round and a distance. 3 Subs. The Gold R. Price's ch. f. Zillah, by Reveller,2lb., walked over - ge Gold Cup of 100 sovs., by Subs. of 10 love. each. Thrice round. 10 Subs. W. Lund I tr . _ T. Sta.nley's b. c. Gasparoni, 3 yrs, 7st 14. r. Topham's b. c. The Drone, by Pantaloon, 3 yrs, 3 7st. 31b... ..2 3 k r ; P. R. Price's br. h. Wentworth, 5 yrs, fist. b 1 lb Tire , t ,„ . Cooke' s br. h. Red Rover, aged, 9st. 51 , ''Y t)n stay Plate of 50 sovs., the gift of .Sir W. W. , l • a t r i rr r• i n , 1 3 1, . h rr i s l I ot i Bart., for all ages. Mile heat Ilarlovv 1 1 a P n ' s is ey eli s . f. Maid of Mouton, 4yrs, 7st. 12 0 2 gr. f. Violet, 4 yrs, 7st. 121 b All % I.4'' '. ''s w-m : t.l eh. f. Margravine, 3 yrs, 6st. 101 b . i . b . .. ........ 0 3 At„ . i c' R. Price's br. g. Captain Pops, 3 vrs, 6st. 10 al. Blake's br. h. Normanby, 5 yr . 's, Bst. 101 b ...... dr The pi. • WEDNESDAY (CONCLUDED). clarernsaY Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 10 ft., and 5 only if de- Mss so, Nice round and a distance. 7 Subs., 4of whom paid . s,. s • each. u ttnc it: R. Price's ch. f. Zillah, 3 yrs, 7st. 21b walked over I r , ' e ,al: l Stakes of 10 sovs. each, 5 ft., if declared, with 20 added 3ifrsltne Fund. Two mile heats. 4 Subs., of whom one declared. 1‘1,., hillips's ch. f. Maid of Monton, 4yrs, Bst. 61b...Marlow 1 1 kTtrow smith's ch. f. Margravine, 3 yrs, Est r. ~ e Town Plate of 50 .ovs. for all ages. Two mile heats. Air. rhillips's ch. f. Maid of Mouton, 4 yrs, Bst. 71b Marlow 1 1 dl r. ~ l 'ep hain's b. c. The Drone, 3 yrs, 7st. 71b 3 2 - .toraes's gr. g. Isaac, aged, 9st. 91b 2 3 __ Ilai r i C HE STERFIE LD RACE RACE'S,.- DIT ESD4 r. sr.ell Plate of 60 gs., given by his Grace the Duke 'if Devon ii'llre, for horses that never won 501. before the day of naming aged Devon three yrs, 7st. 3113 ; four yrs, Bst. 61b ; five, Bst. 1 llb ; six and kl la 81 t. 131 b. Mares and geldings allowed 31b. Two mile r. `• kr. '°llldswot'n's b. f. by Vanish, 3 yrs ... ...... John Grey 1 1 kr. ~?vrtv.right's gr. c, Kochlani, by Harlequin, 3 yrs 2 2 13itchead's b. % se g. by Rolla. 3 yr 5..... Won easy. yrsr s 7 t kes of 10 some. each, for horses, &e., of all ages ; three k 9 st. st ' r f a - ur yrs, Bst. 41b ; five yrs, Bst..lllb six yrs and aged, Ir. p er .. sre's and geldings 2lbs. Two miles. 7 Subs. s,u /t/7-. Nat ures ch. c . H arkaway, 4 yrs walked over ~,.,. Ille ".'./RE UNION HUNT CLUB MEE TING. C hall THURSDAY. Nd 1 en ge Whip of 100 sows. value, given by Lord Milt on , f ten. N. ` t° a Sweepstake of 10 sovs. each, p.p. ; three yrs, lost. 1 lialfi r S. list. ; five yrs, list. 81b. ; six yrs and aged, -.. . A i . "'rti N it r e , ' horses allowed 10Ibs. Three miles. 8 Subs. I li t% Ibt t t t ll' S 11. C. Trent, by Langer, four yrs... Capt. Williams 2 k oa. q. ,!ores b. In. Susanna, by Figaro, aged A i '. 11 'V. Fitzwilliam's b. m. Lena, by Mulatto, aged Ai r . 1.1.,,,5,' Thempson's b. m. Helen Percy, six yrs.... 4 r . 1,. .I„teY's ch. m. Miss Frill, six yr 5..... 5 . ~ 11 4 tettin ..,Papson's b. h. Yaxley, six yrs .. 6 A e e leo 1,,g ,11. / to 4 agst Trent, 2 to 1 agst Susanna, and 6 to 1 agst 01 ) , 0 °L).Y: WOO easy by two lengths. A . i l d that; vece of Plate of 50 sous. for horses not thorough bred, lit,-keli. that ha; ,_"aye never started for any but a Hunter's Stake ; llst. C' G s ' ' 'fi e winner to be sold for 100 sovs., &c. One mile. ktalvi n > Captain L I , eh. h. Slyfellow, by Guerilla Owner 1 A t ai o ~ l osall sb. ni. Selima, by Young Phantom, six yrs... 2 3 r. r. chefs`-harab's b. I. The Cardinal, h. b., aged an, line', 111 . , 'G. u, •g. Little John, aged • Ja„,•• Fitzwilliam's b. m. Gazelle, five yrs ,1 1 . 1 ett -t i o 4 „,"'s h. rn. Fenella, aged 11 4 2%Ni 6 6 to 4 on Slyfellow, who won by a length, and was sr idt Z 1 !. , Z 1/ f, : t a a l k i e , s .. of 3 sovs. each, p.p., with 20 sovs. added by the ,th ree /late , tne horses that started for the Gold . Cup, the Ctiam `.oll'es 5 ib , and the Scurry Stakes. The winner of any of the 11:41 e :, each. Mile and a half. Alp' G, iv". T hompson's b. g. Algiers, aged, llst Owner 2 1 At; li s-,,,,,. Fitzwilliam's b. g. Malay, 5 yrs, list. 121 b... 41 1 .‘ ,lill'l,. 4,llornpson's b. f. Whirlwind, S yrs, 9st. 71b Bet & bbo i t 4 ‘er'b b. g. Lyndhurst, b yrs, lOst. Sib it, ' e u's b. f. Santarella, by Stumps, 4 yrs, 11st. .71b V s sta, s t° 2 agst Algiers, and sto 2 agst Whirlwind. Won 11 , tee "Y three lenhs }'rat 4 11 Club Stakesof .10 ssys each, p.p., for maiden horses ll l's ,' 1 2 " : 11e ,:er started for any stake but a hunters' stake ; four lipq *.' 'fa s a t i , ' "ve yrs, lest 10Ib• six and aged, 13st. Half-bred Alii,ed Blbs - - i ' l.:le and ' a half. 5 Subs. At' . E / ,'" ° °'s br. g v . ... curgus, by Mulatto, 4 yrs ...Mr. Daniels 1 Alp to.:'• Reyna4s Y cli. c. Slyfellow, aged 11 'tile , 2 ek e ttis k. „ Y ' gr. g. Coronet (h. b.). aged ... 3 Ir. i•b" -- 7 to 4 and 2 to 1 on Slyfellow, who was beaten in a V k 5....,...,„,...__...._._......-..-.- s myth),.,.i-.°llllrit Villiers, M.P. for this borough (Wey ,,l;olo„4ljust arrived here.-Dorset County Chronicle. N 4l 4 ' 1 , 111411 .45 41 e t o l i i k ?binson , of Peckham, has presented a lotn 4l So l rt'°n of minerals to the Museum of the Royal th„" ; ° be a „°,, °, ; they arc sixty-three in number, and comprise fi.'l' tiati-Lui specimens of gold, silver, and other metals, in ( ate s. ye state, from the mines of Mexico and the United 41 l'h e 3 p:4olt unPjlttstnen of the Limousin have lately had an t 4e, t'villied.day's amusement. M. St. Leger, of Saint 'lil tt nd of tsst couples r keen lovers of the chase, assembled with about )41,, 11 . tad k ept abounds and a field of 300 riders, beat the fo titiboar, a t t uP, the hunt till they had killed 11 wolves and a t l4 triu to young wolf whelp alive, which was car 4111th to the chateau of Parsec. hb, l it'ri s , - T , 'p h Ner oits " R EFORMATION SOCIETY.---A very ttpi.44,psci. itv_Tveeentiinnacrga, of the friends of this Society took place on b, i_en y tt. ern op ractoitlhrte, Horns ß.N Tavern, Kennington. Cap , took the Chair, and detailed Ce s tti ag u s; a n s at e n o re of the Society . , and the object for which the hi tt ted by t he Rev The meeting.; was subsequently ad ben ~ ne Rev. J. R. age, minister of St. Mark's, Ken- Pt) * i 4" • J h C • th. 4 -e u ' ° u ummtng, minister of the Scotch Church, bop tsli i ,: . _ art, Covent -garden, George Finch, Esq., Rev. H. ~ wii.!•trat, 'Messrs. Robinson Wylie, &c. A liberal collee- W L ti ltds. rnad e 1 0 aid of the Society, which is crippled for. want t;? L' p uti a t t h f i r s ie rld George Robins has indulged his English k L _ e och, ev,ening in our advertising columns with a little bit t l j?d, s ii ., a ' petite Menage de Garcon" cannot be misunder. he ithure',4et this little Jewel appears sufficiently commodious to 4 "ettlty the legitimate wants of a family-it really must 4 ki r tiv en " „ th ,ing; and thinking so, we shall pay an early visit PlA n .. .it, to see the Conservatories full of orange trees kati 44diitsttbiye first order, Gardens full of usefulness and 4 Bijou of the first water: SLAVE EMANCIPATION. I am, very respectfully, Birmingham, 10:h M ont h , 4th,JO 1838.5 E PH STURGE. Ti;e Planters-admit, that where the negroes have accepted the offered terms, they are doing more work than during the most palmy days of Slavery. No. I. EXTRACT OP A LETTER DATED JAMAICA, AUGUST 17. The Falmouth Post will furnish you with the sayings and doings on the glorious termination of slavery in this Island, scenes which it is impossible fully to describe. It has been one of the most exciting periods of my existence, and though there is much, very much, to be done, 1 have every hope, that, assisted by our friends at home, the advocates of freedom ttiill yet triumph, the victim of oppression be free. To watch narrowly the laws which may be made, or the operation of those now in existence, is essentially ne cessary, and I am confident that this will be done both here and at home. A Police Bill for Falmouth was pa , sed last Session on the 28th of March, which is most infamous in some of its clauses, and is intended, and will, if not disal lowed, harrass and distress the industrious peasant. I did not know of it till the other day. Do, I beseech you, if it be not too late, try to get it disallowed. I most sincerely hope, that in a few months we shall h. ye a Society organized for the Protection of the Civil and Religious Liberties of the People ; it will be proposed at our next Quarterly Union, and though we are now sur rounded by bitterer foes than ever, I have little doubt but that we shall finally succeed. If the lovely infant, Freedom, had but the cordial support of the Mimisters of the Gospel, which proclaims and vete es it, he would soon tower to the strength of manhood; but ales, alas, the blasting influence of the destroyed Manster, together with the exploded cry Politics I Politics ! keeps too many aloof, and induces others to side with those, who if they dared, would strangle the heaven -born child. A deep plot has been laid by many of the large attor neys to refuse a fair remuneration to the labouring popula. tion, so that pauperism would have soon covered the Island. You will have perceived that as soon as I found it out I convened a public meeting, a full account of which was pub lished in the Post. Many still hold out, and I have every reason to believe, that though we shall succeed this time in defeating their plans, that similar attempts will continually be made. As soon as the people know how to use moral power, these attempts will be futile, but this cannot be ex pected at present, and can only be induced by an extended system of education, the machinery for which is yet very defective and lamentably deficient in quantity. Could this be much extended, and the power of the lordly attorneys les sened, Jamaica would bid fair to rise, and would exhibit one of the noblest triumphs that freedom ever won. We are looking with much anxiety for the account of the Abolition Bill, hoping that it will be modified at home. The latter clauses will be made engines of gross oppression if they are allowed to remain, but I sincerely hope that they will be disallowed. Will it be believed, that among the thousands who assem bled at the festival of freedom, I saw not one in a state of in toxication, though I travelled much. Such is the fact, and if the attorneys, who appear, at least some of them, reckless of the proprietors' interest, had met them fairly, every one would have been at work on the following week. Without the slightest foundation in truth, the papers weekly teem with the most alarming tidings. The consolation is that they have cried wolf so long that their ravings are unheeded. You will perceive that an attempt was made to injure me by some of the lovers of slavery. They have been shown how powerless they are. The. Governor wrote me a very excellent letter on the subject, which, together with mine to him, I shall forward to England. Since I commenced this I find that the attorneys are coming into proper terms. So far so good, but they will still need to be watched, for the present law is a very shameful one, and may be applied, equally iniquitous with the apprenticeship. We shall still used a paid magistracy, or all will go wrong. What think you? And Mr. Cocking still dis graces the office. This is indeed a shame. No. If. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM JAMAICA, DATED AUGUST 18. Hitherto I have not trouble(' you personally with any direct communication—only indirectly. Through me you rece i ved an account, which was published in the Emancipator some time since, about, an apprentice being punished because his mis stress's sick horse fell down and died, near Old Harb3ur, by order of Mr. M'Leod, the Special Justice. I must now give you an account of this gentleman's career hitherto. He de-, ecived the British public grossly, by professing to have given no lashes to the apprentices ; true, but hosts of people were sent by him to the tread-mills, both in Vere and Clarendon, a distance of 20 mike, where they were well flogged, but not by Mr. MtLend. Women with infants at their breasts were not spared. His punishments, without his owN lashes, were so se vere that, I believe, the Governor removed him from St. Do rothy to Clarendon in consequence. Now for Mr. M'Leod's career in Clarendon. He was the dread of all the apprentices round about, and, strange to say, he is still continued in office. The people declare that they will forsake Clarendon if he con tiues in that parish, and Mr. M'Leod has already given a spe cimen of what his intentions ale. Observe, he is a great friend of the planters, and he has declared that all assaults brought before him shall be punished most severely. Sometime ago he declared in my bearing, when a most unjust case was brought before him, that he would carry the law with fire and sword. Mark—he has kept his word. Within the last few days a white man, called a book-keeper, on Retreat Estate, was serv ing the late apprentices with notices to quit; one woman col lared this man. On Tuesday, the 14th, two policemen came to take her, without a warrant ; she refused to go. The next day, Wednesday, this said Mr. M'Leod, armed with a pistol, thirteen policemen armed with guns, several black men, for merly constables on the properties, with guns, the over seer of Low Ground Estate, the property of James Beckford Wildman, Esq., with a sword—these all entered the estate, threatening and pointing their guns at the poor people's houses ; Mr. Wildman's overseer made several chops - at one man with his sword, yea, pursued him, but the man escaped; the people made no resistance, but said an armed party had no right there; that they were free people, and had a right to work and put the money in their pockets. Mr. M'Leod said they were impudent, and three of these innocent people are now in pri son. A complaint has been taken to the Governor by some of the people who were annoyed. To-morrow is the Sabbath. I expect to hear further on Monday. OCT. 24.—The Governor this week is visiting Clarendon and Vere; and, as he has not returned, I cannot say further about the aforesaid. The people of Hillside and Brazeletta Estates, Vere, com plain that the constables, or head-men, compelled them to put the mill about on Sabbath evening, at six or seven o'clock, in crop time, during the app rent i ces hi p; they (the constables) being bribed to do so by the overseer. This ought to be ex posed. The celebrated Mr. Turner, the attorney, ought to be shown up. BREAD. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—lt is some few weeks since I made known to your readers a means of relief from undue pressure, whilst grain is not compelled to b 3 brought into Market according to its age (,:r whilst commercial restrictions are unremoved from the just interchange of productions), which affects those most whose subsistence is principally, though not necessarily on Bread, bought or made. Let me now request of them and you an early consideration of the propriety to assemble in a public, legal, and business like manner, to declare that readiness to promote the joint in terest of themselves and those truly beneficial Continental Bread Companies in London, and along the Eastern and South-Eastern shores' contiguity, which may then be proposed. In co-opar4tion with millions, I am, Sir, your obedien Servant, as Central Secretary pro tern., September 29, 1838. 'WM. F. G. WALDRON, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sheffield, Oct. 4, 1838. SIR,—Ai you yesterday inserted a letter from a Sheffield Reformer on the subject of the number present at the Radical meeting here, I trust to your well-known love of fair play for the insertion of another. I am one who do not believe the statement made by the Iris—viz., that 20,000 people were present; but I wish to set you and the public right as to the cause of the error. There is in Sheffield a plot of ground called Paradise-sqvtare, where all the great Reform meitings were held in the days of Lord Milton, Henry Brougham, Esq., Mr. Buckingham, &c. &c. Now, it is well known that this party always estimated this square as calculated to hold 25,000 when full—which it never was. The late Radical meeting was not held in Paradise -square, but in a place called Roscoe Field. The Radicals not being accustomed to make such calculations, relied on those of their predecessors in agi tation; and as they were sure the number present was greater than could possibly have crowded into Paradise-square, they modestly concluded that there must be at least 20,000. I was present at the meeting, and know the above to be the facts of le case. My opinion is, that nearly all great meetings are ; as to num bers, over estimated ; and the Radicals, in this particular, are only following the examples set them both by Whigs and Forks. The day of the Sheffield Meeting was almost a thorough rainy one, and I can assure you that, though your Whig friend may have felt annoyed, the Radicals were any thing but disapp o i n t e d. Th e W orking Men ' s Association had called upon the people, and the people, in spite of the rain, and in spite of the absence of the respectables, answered to the call. Perhaps, Sir, a more profitable question for you gentlemen of the Press to discuss would be, as to whether any other party than the Radicals could, at the present moment, have got up meetings equally numerous. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, ANOTHER SHEFFIELD REFORMER. MONEY AND CITY NEWS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OP THIS DAT.) TI VI E S.--A moderate business was done in the funds to. day, with a slight improvement in the quotations of Consols. The state of banking affairs in New Orleans, by the ac counts last received, appears to be the least, were we to judge from the surface, satisfactory of any part of the American Union. According to the statement made up to the 6th of August, the total amount of bank note currency afloat of the 16 nanks of that city was 7,500,713 dollars, from which, de ducting the notes held by the different banks, say 2,510,065 dollars, the net result of this sort of liabilities would be 4,990,648 dollars, to cover which the banks had in their vaults 3,418,237 dollars in specie, being thus more than two.. thirds of the whole sum of paper out in the bands of the public. The deposits on public and private account. which are another important branch of ti,e liabilities that in case of resumption of specie payments must be taken into calculation, reach, however, to about 6,800,000 dollars. The sums due on balance by foreign bankers are stated at above 2,000,000 dollars, and these may be regarded as perhaps equal to a pro vision o' specie, as they might be drawn against or specie imported direct from Europe on occasion to the extent. The monthly averages preceding do not exhibit any variations worthy remark from those of August, and it cannot fail, therefore, to excite the more surprise to find these banks so backward in the business of resumption as even now to be proposing to postpone it to the first Monday in January next; and then only conditionally, when the New York banks, under circumstances less favourable in many points of view, have already raised the suspension, and are participating in the full credit and advantages of a return to hard cash payments. From various indications there is good reason to suppose that the " master paper currency manufacturer" was not uncon nected with these dilatory movements at New Orleans, and indeed so much may be gathered from the tenour of various resolutions carried at a special meeting of a Board of Presi dents of the various banks in that city, held on the 16th of June, to take into consideration the propriety of fixing a date for the resumption. Among' these resolutions one was to the effect that the " first Monday in January next should be fixed on as the time of resumption of said banks, provided that the United States Bank of Pennsylvania, through its agency in this city, will furnish a general currency until the establishment of a national bank, or until some other remedial measures be adopted or sustained by the Government in relation to the currency," &c. It is impossible not to be struck with astonishment that a resolution so humiliating to themselves, and so degrading to the large concerns of which they were the chiefs, should have been as sented to by any body of respectable men. It amounts al most, in fact, to a sentence of insolvency upon their 'own establishments, and of deplorable incompetency upon them selves, that the banks could not fulfil their legitimate obliga tions, nor they equal to the management, without the inter mission and superintendence of a distant contemporary mana ger and a rival bank. There is probably no instance on re cord of men so remarkably volunteering their own degrada tion; not, be it observed, in deference to a national institution, Vut to an undertaking, and a functionary invested with no more of a public character than their own banks and they themselves—an undertaking actually competing with them in their own city by means of a subordinate offshoot, to which they thus express a desire to become subordinate. It might fairly be taken for granted that the New Orleans banks thus unceremoniously dealt with by their own managers were no better than retail money shops, with capitals merely nominal, or at moat consisting of a few thou sands only, and whose very existence, therefore, was con tingent up on t h e power of emiss.on of some rag dollars, whose credit and currency depended upon the goodwill an d pleasure of Mr. Biddl e. The reverse, however, would seem to be the fact, if cre di t may be placed in their own statements, guaranteed, moreover, by official and legislative authority. For out of these sixteen banks thus condemned by their own leaders, no less than eight have nominal or subscribed capitals varying from 3,000,000 dollars to 12,000,00 c dollars, and of capital actually paid up ranging from 2,000,000 dollars to 7,000,000 dollars; the other eight having subscribed capitals chiefly of 2,000,000 dollars each, in greater or less proportions paid up, the subscribed capital of one only being so low as 500,000 dollars. Nor was the business transacted by these Banks less important, the aggregate amount of loans and dis• counts on the 6th of August being considerably beyond 50,000,000 dollars. It is only fair to state that the extraordi nary resolution referred to did not pass unanimously. Three of the Batik Presidents present, repreiienting so many Banks, not moved amendm ents i n a Contrary sense hut voted ab solutely ° utel lY y against it, and for resumption in January, without qualification or reference to contingency of any description ; and as the Banks on whose behalf they acted so honourable . No. 111. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM JAMAICA, AUGUST 24. The first of August was indeed a happy day at Gurney's Mount; we laid the corner stone of a chapel, which is to erected in commemoration of the glorious event. Above four thou. sand persons were present, seventy-six couples of whom I united in matrimony, and the day was passed by the emanci pated negroes in peaceful and grateful joy at their deliverance ; it is indeed remarkable that as far as I have been able to learn not one case of disturbance marred the happiness of that period, even in Kingston, although I am informed upwards of thirty thousand persons were assembled ; yet when the chief constable was asked, he said, " that he had had nothing to do; no riot, not even a boy fight;" and he had not one indi vidual in custody. I cannot but think that our Governor has been very instrumental in producing so quiet a stato of things ; his conduct for the last few months is entitled to the highest praise. He has been kind and conciliatory to the people, while he has been prompt in redressing their grievances. I du hope that he will not be removed just as the harness begins to fit, and as he has become acquainted with the real state of things here ; indeed if he were to leave just now, I believe the c) nsequonces wou ld b e most disastrous. I a sorry to say th a t th e present appearance of things in Ja m maien is far from favourable. Although in a moment of mad exc:teraent the planters passed a Bill to emancipate the ___ i teseroee, Yet it appea r s th a t th e y on ly did i t i n the hone of TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN again gett i ng t h em i nto their clutches, without being exposed . to the coercion of Lord Glenelg's Bill, or the superintending It has been stated on the authority of some of the most interference of the Special Justices—to this end they studiously infamous portion of the Colonial Press, or sources equally un_ avoided every thing like an arrengement with the people be worthy of credit, that th e negroes in the West Indies, have fore August, although Mr. Knible and myself, in our district's, refused to work on the Sugar and Coffee Plawations for equi_ volunteered to visit any properties, and employ our influen ce table wages since they have been made free; this is entirely to effect an equitable agreement for all parties. On the Mon unfounded, though it ►would be nothing more than, as free men, day after August I, all the people on the various estates they would have a perfect right to do. The information I turned out and repaired to their overseers, &c., to know the have received from numerous individuals on whose veracity I terms on which they were to work in future. On Borne estates can fully rely, justifies me in challenging the enemies of the 10d. or 6d. sterling per day was offered viable bodied negroes, negro whi4 circulate these reports, to produce a single instance on many 12id. cr 7kd. sterling, on a few Is. 3d., or 9d. sterling of an estate's g ang re f us i ng to work when fair remuneration was mentioned, and in two or three cases Is. Bd., these sums has been offered to them, or in which, en the late joyous oc- were civilly, but firmly, refused by the negroes, who demanded carrion, their behaviour has given just ground of complaint, 2s. 6d. per day, or Is. 6d. sterling, that being the atnount indeed their admirable condurt is perhaps without a parallel in they always received per day for their own tirne, and the history. Twenty-fi ve days trai el a p se d w h en the last packet, sum which was sworn to be their lowest value, an also d which sailed, after severa l h un d red theusaad human beings who had they had to pay when they wished to purchase their freedom. been in perpetual bondage received their immediate freedom, Out of this sum the people willingly offered to pay rent for and not a single breach of the peace appears to have occured in . their houses and grounds, to pay their own doctors' bills, and any of the Colonies, except one in St. Lucie, and a woman in short meet every claim upon them. This demand, collaring a policeman in Jamaica, end I cannot even bear that however fair it appears to be, has been, and still is, resisted one negro has been seen intoxicated. Where the civil autho- with a spirit of bitterness and determination which threatens rity interfered in St. Lucie, the parties punished were two the most ruinous consequences; although more than three MANAGERS, whom the Chief Justice has fined 20/. each, and weeks have elapsed since August the Ist, yet on most of the imprisoned two months for their disgraceful conduct"; but estates in the island not one single stroke has been struck. evetein this Island half the police have been dismissed as no The negroes appear determined not to work unless they can longer needful. I subjoin a few extracts from letters I re- be fairly remunerated for their labour, and the attorneys seem ceived from Jamaica yesterday. determined rather to ruin the estates under their charge than The accounts from British Guiana state that the wages of- yield to the reasonable demands of those whom they have beenfered them is about 10 dollars per month; in Trinidad, 6to 12 accustomed to regard only as beasts of burden ; unless new dollars; Tobago, Bd. sterling per day; accustomed St. Kitts, attorneys be sent out untainted with the foul contaminations-- 51-d; St. Lucie, 3 tog dollars per month; Jamaica, sd. to Is. ef slavery, the island will certainly be ruined. Already the sterling per day •; most of these include the use of the house most bitter demonstrations 'of hatred have been exhibited to. and provision grounds. When it is recollected what a dispro. wards those who have been prominent in defending t portion th ese terms bear to what the negro was compelled to of the poor. From a letter d yesterday fromhe rights Lucia, I pay if be bou g h t out his freedom, it will create no surprise learn that they have determined onmy destructio n , as soon as that the negroes, with the advice of their friends, have refused I return, which I hope to do in a fortnight. And last Lord's to accept some of these offers. The blacks in the West Indies Day the town of Falmouth was in the highest state of excite. have already proved themselves far more tit for freedom than ment from a report that Mr. Knibb had been shot, thousands tlao whites and many of the attorneys and managers have shown, of negroes coming in from all quarters armed, and declaring They are so utterly unfit to govern free men, that unless the that if he were killed they would avenge his death. I think proprietors at home speeeily change their agents, they may that there can be no doubt but this was a plan of the enemy to expect to have their estates deserted by their labourers. In excite the people to rebellion, as the reports were raised as . Jamaica they h ave b een so entirely reckless of the interests of nearly as possible at the same time at Brown's Town, Stewart those employers for whom they act, as to give the labourers Town, Old Harbour, &c. Bze.. It is a merciful circumstance notice to quit the houses they have built, and the gardens they that the people had the prudence to go to Falmouth first to have brought into cultivation in their ows time. The reli. ascertain the truth of it, otherwise the consequences me , lit gious and mora l a d vancement of the Colonies will a l so b e have b een f ata l i ndeed. We have both been sadly calurn greatly retarded unless the Governors of several of the Islands niated by the public prints, our conduct and language misre are exchanged for totter men, and a large proportion of th e presented, and our - characters villified; however we care lit.. Judges and Magistretee, wee now disgrace the bench, are tie for thei r ca l umn i es, if we can but a c t so as to avo id their dismissed. praise, th e i r censure w i ll never do us any harm. lam happy to be able to bear testimony to the excellent conduct of the negroes, they appear fully aware of the wishes of their'enemies to create a disturba nce ; an d d eterm i ned to disappoint their). We are greatly obliged to you for your suggestion respecting a " Socie.y for the Protection of Liberty; it will have our attention ; and soon I hope to be able to inform you that such a society is in active operation. THE SUN, LONDON, SATIJIIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1839. cnd - • -rt are not suited in the document fr om which these particulars are exivacted it 'tiny not be amiss tO notice, as of interest perhaps ev e n here; that the ,individuals in question were Messrs. Breedlove,!levies, Etna For.itall. It is sufficiently obvious, from the wording and condition tin which it is Made td hinge, that so far as the resolution itsci is concerned, the return to specie payments at New 4 Orleans was as distant as ever, if indeed the question of its ex pediency were honestly,entertaitted at all. The resumption to which Mr, Biddle had been so tardily &aliened in Philadel phia, combined with that in other States of the Union, placed it clearly beyond the power of the United States Bank of Pennsylvania to " furnish the general currency" required pre liminarily; for k as under the operation of the banking laws of the states where the resumption had taken place paper cur rency of any sort or by whatever parties issued must be con vertible on demand, the effect of its possessing an inconver tible character in New Orleans would be rendered nugatory by its easy transmission for conversion to Pennsylvania, unless the State of Louisiana should interfere by special Act in behalf of the bank of another State over whose issues it could exercise no control, which of course is a suppo sition not at. all probable. The establishment of a National Bank, and the adoption of ariy " remedial measures" in the nature of a general paper currency, or in aid of the views of Mr. Biddle on the part of the general Government, was not less improbable, so that the parties who propounded the resolution took every precaution against the possibility of a case arising in which it sho u ld be other than a dead letter, or compel them to a resumption of specie payments. New York and other States having resumed, it is difficult to under stand why indeed the resumption at New Orleans should be postponed under any circumstances so long as the next year, and such was the opinion unanimously expressed by the direc tors of the Citizens' Bank (one of those, it would seem, dis sentient) at a meeting on the 27th of June last, when it was declared that the " most suitable time for a resumption is the dead season, say August or September, that the public may gradually be accustomed to said resumption, previous to the receipt of the next crop." As during the dead season busi ness was much less active, less paper afloat generally, and less specie in request, the resumption on those grounds also would have been a more safe and 'practicable proceeding of the banks, with calls and liabilities so much better under their control. CHRONICLE.—This being another strict holiday with the members of the Jewish persuasion, there has been very little busi ness transacted at the Stock' Exchange, and the prices in the English Stock Market are much the sam e as yes terday. Portu,guese Sreurities are rather lower; the Five per Cents. having closed at 331 to 34i, and the Three per Cents. at 21 : , 1- to 22i; but we are without any further advices from Portugal, and there does not appear to be any particular cause for the depression. There has been no further improvement in Spanish, but the prices are firm, and the greatest anxiety is shown to ascertain the reason of the late sudden rise in the face of the most unfavourable intelligence from Spain. POST.—The monthly commercial liabilities falling due esterday (the 4th) are understood to have been much heavier than has been the case for a very long time past. This cir cumstance has, it is believed, arisen principally from the re cent operations of grain, and so material an increase in the amount which it was necessary to provide for has been rather sensibly felt in the discount market. A short time ago good mercantile acceptances were readily cashed at, or even under, 3 per cent., but, during the present week, 3A per cent., and, in some instances, the full Bank of England- rate of 4 per cent per annum, has been demanded and paid for accommodation. For Stock Exchange purpo's'es tem porary loans are obtainable at 23- to 3 per cent. No variations of the least consequence have taken place in the value of the public securities to-day. There was but very little appearance of activity in the English market, and the Foreign Funds were, if possible, still more neglected than at any former period of the week. There were, indeed but few descriptions that even commanded a quotation in the official lists of the House. Spanish Bonds were marked a fraction worse, the news from the Peninsula being still of a nature to cause alarm to the holders. That any relief is to be expected from the Queen's Government, under any circumstances, is more than we are sceptical enough to believe. The vile in tention at Madrid is sufficiently evident from the negotiations which have been carried on or attempted to be so for a long time past with Messrs. Rothschild's firm, in relation to the Al- maden quicksilver mines, arid this being the case, the traffic which is kept up in them is a perfect disgrace to the Stock Exchange. We would recommend, as such trash cannot be honestly imposed by any one man upon another, that Spanish Bonds of every denomination, whether it be the Active, as they are ridiculously termed (for they pay no dividends, nor have they done so now for the last year and a half), the Passive, or the Deferred, as deferred they will assuredly.be till the day of judgment, should be posted on the walls of the edifice, upon the same principle as spurious coin is nailed clown to a tradesman's counter. The public have had a vast deal too much of this disgusting fraud. For our own part, we feel it, as we have said before, a humiliation to have, from day to day, to speak of so contemptible a bubble. The famous Poyais Bonds, although they may be lower in price, are, intrinsically, not a shade more worthless than these infamous Spanish Bonds, which have ken so very improperly dignified with the name of Securities. Consols left off this afternoon at 94 to i for Money and for Account, Exchequer Bills and India Bonds at 695. to 71s. prem., and India Stock at 2611 to 2. In the Foreign house Five per Cent. Dutch Stock was marked 1001 to ex-dividend ; Two-and-a. Half per Cent. ditto 53i to s ; Brazilian, 791- to 80 ex-dividend ; Five per Cent. Portuguese, 334 to 34i; Three per Cent. ditto 22i to 23k; and Active Spanish, with the arrear of dividends due u pon them, 181 to 1. Th e l ast name d i nterest was about 4 per cent. worse than at the close of business yes terday. The tricks of the Belgian gamblers, to which we have before made allusion, and which may be re peated, not only at Brussels and Antwerp, but in a market nearer home, have perhaps made a bad impression on the more simpl e and confiding class of holders, and rendered them anxious to sell. The Share Market was heavy, both as regards the amount of business transacted in it, and with reference to prices also. Great Western Railway shares were done at 14 to 15 prem. ; g P n rem bills this afternoon were at the London and Brighton, 2i to 2 dis. ; London and Blackwall, an Antwerp, 2to 1k dis. ; and London and Birmingham quarter shares, at 24 to 5 prem. The shares of the French Patent Coal Com pany have been brought upon the market. The busiln3essild:ntoe 75 ; Hamburgh, p, 12 4. The ten ii n ; followingTi h A e e m m tsr i t i ae a nie. s i b im e ht e ia: n nul a g2s t e : n:i. t .7..f o o t rol. Paris, 7, 1 dency of the market is still rather in favour of higher quota tions than otherwise; that is to say, against the seller of bills, and the importation of grain and other foreign commodities. latsientevlicohf ___..._ HERALD. —This has been, completely' an idle day, both hbialvle, however, been with the monetary and commercial interests , and, as no arri vals have been received in consequence of th p e ay p meee North-easterly winds, a gloom has prevailed throughout our commercial world that could hardly have been anticipated when, as IS USU • a l a t this season, so many commercial adr• ' lees become due. The Commercial Money Market presents but little occa sion met, and it will probably have the effect of easing the Money ,Merkel temporarily. The business in 'the Conti b t,became m fo e r due particular o n the remark.4th a n d The sth heavy i r, t., nental Exchanges has not been at all extensive to-day. On Paris the quotAions remain as on the last p ost d ay, and are 251. 77ic. to 25f. 82fe. On the Northern ports they have slightly improved, the quotation on Amsterdam being 12 0 a 12 5 ; on Rotterdam t he same ; and on Hamburg 13 113. - There has not been much g eneral business in the Share Market to-day. The chief quotations are Great Western at 14i prem., Brighton at 2e a -4. dis., and Blackwell at 1i dis. Birmingham Quarter Shares are 242 prem. a ..-Amongst the Miscellaneous Shares the quotations are French Patent Coal Company at / 4 - a *prem., and in Banking Shares, London and Westminster, at 3i prem., and the Unidn Bank of Australia, at 51- a i- prem. DEATH of CHARLES TENNANT Esq. Of this excellent citizen and most amiable man, it be ! comes us, as Reformers, first to speak in reference to his p o liti es , for few have taken a stronger interest in public affairs during the last thirty years. Mr. Tennant was all his life a Reformer, and of him, as of the late Mr. Colin Dunlop, it may be truly said, that he steadily maintained to the last those political opinions with which he set out. To uphold and extend these, was his greatest pleasure—. and at all times and under all circumstances, a grateful and a sacred duty. His purse, his leisure, and his great in fluence in society, were all freely, judiciously, and in defatigably employed in the furtherance of Liberal principles and opinions, in the progress and practical application of which he believed the best interest of society to be chiefly concerned. Under any circumstances, the loss of such a man must have been deeply felt by the political party to which he belonged ; but in these critical times, and in the face of many adverse circumstances, it is indeed a sore discouragement and a heavy blow to the Liberals of this district. Setting political conaderations aside, in Mr. Tennant the community of Glasgow has lost an enterprising and public-spirited citizen, who carried into every public undertaking in which he was concerned, the masculine a n d v i gorous judgment, with the temperate and unrelaxin g energy, which, from very moderate beginnings, had gradu a lly ra i sed him to the rank of one of the first mercantile men i n S cot l and. In private life, Mr. T ennant possessed a qu i et and unassuming simplicity of manners, with great ki n dli ness of disposition, which, being associated with unspotted integrity, made him equally beloved and admired. He was a warm and steady friend ; and a wide circle of which he was at once the delight and the orna ment, will long continue to feel the dreary void which his decease has created. In our city (Glasgow) men of all parties speak of his memory with affection, and lament over his loss as a public calamity. —Scots Times. An inquest was held last evening in Marylebone on the body of Mr. George Coslake, late landlord o f the Boston Arms public-house, Boston-street. It appeared in evidence that, on the lath of September, Mr. Coslake went down to his cellar for the purpose of tapping a puncheon of rum, when a piece of wood flying out of the puncheon and catching the candle became ignited and fell into the, rum, which immedi. ately burst into a blaze and set fire to the clothes of the ceasA, from the effects of which he died on Tuesday last. It was with the greatest difficulty that the flames from the rum were extinguished. Verdict...." Accidental Death." R. TIERNEY. (From the Edinburgh Review.) 4 - Preatly inferior to these men—indeea, of a (Efferent class, as well as orderea - hut far from an inconsiderable per ' son in debate, where he had his then particular line, and in that eminently excelled, was Mr. Tierney. iii had been bred to the law, wag called to the bar, and for a short time frequented the Western Circuit, on which he succeeded klr. Pitt in the office of Recorder, or keeper of the circuit books and funds, a situation filled by the youngest member of the profession on the several circuits each successive year. He soon, hoverer, like his illustrious predecessor, left the hard and dull, arid for many years cheerless path, which ends in the highest places in the state, and the most important functions of the constitution ; and devoted him self to the more inviting, but more thorny and even more precarious, pursuit of politics ; in which merit, if it never fails of earning fame and distinction, very often secures no thing more solid to its possessor ; and which has the further disadvantage of leading to power, or to disappointment, ac cording to the conduct or the caprice of others, as much as of the candidate himself. No man more than Mr. Tierney lived to experience the truth of this remark ; and no man more constantly advised his younger friends to avoid the fascinations which concealed such snares and led to those rocks. In truth, no one had a better right to give this warning ; for his talents were peculiarly fitted for the con tentions of the legal profession, and must have secured him great eminence had he remained at the bar ; but they were accompanied with some defects, which proved exceedingly injurious to his suceegs as a Statesman. He possessed suffi, cient industry to master any subject, and, until his health failed, to undergo any labour. .His understanding was of that plain, and solid description which weans well, and is . always more at the command of its possessor than the bril liant qualities that dazzle the vulgar. To any extraordinary quickness of apprehension he laid no claim ; ,teeet he saw with perfect clearness, and, if he did not take a very wic? range ; yet within his appointed scope, his ideas were strongly' formed, and, when he stated them, luminously expressed. Everythin g refined he habit ua ll y re j ec t e d ; partly as above his comprehension, partly as beneath his regard ; and he was wont to value the efforts of fancy still lower than the feati of subtilty ; so that there was something extremely comical in witnessing the contrast of his homely somewhat literal understanding with the irnagioatire nature or Ers kine. But if refinement and fancy, when tried upon him apart, met with this indifferent reception, their combination in anything romantic, especially when it was propounded as a guide of conduct, fared still worse at his hands ; and if he ever found such views erected into a test or standard for deciding either on public or on private affairs, he was apt to treat the fabric rather as the work of an unsound mind, than as a structure to be seriously exposed and taken to pieces by argument. Nevertheless, with all this shunning of fanciful matter, no one's mind was more accessible to groundless imagina tions, provided they entered by one quarter, on which cer tainly lay his weak side as a politician. A man unde niably of cool personal courage ; a debater of an unques tioned boldness and vigour ; he was timid in council ; always saw the gloomy side of things ; could scarcely ever be induced to look at any other aspect ; and tormented both himself and others with endless doubts and 'difficul ties, and apprehensions of things barely possible,. as if in human affairs, from the crossing of a street to the governing of a kingdom, men were not compelled either to stand stock-still, or to expose themselves to innume rable risks—acting, of course, only on probabilities, and those often not very high ones. It was a singular thing to observe bow complete a change the same individual had undergone in passing from the consultation to the debate. The difference was not greater between Erskine out of Court and in his professional garb. He was firm in the line once taken, against which he had raised a host of objections, and around which he had thrown a cloud of doubts ; he was as bold in meeting real enemies as he had been timid in conjuring - up imaginary risks; prompt, vigor ous, determined, he carried on the debate ; and he who in a distant view of it could only descry difficulties and create confusion, when the tug of war approached, and he came to close quarters, displayed an abundance of re sources which astonished all who had been harassed with his hesitation, or confounded by his complexities, or vexed with his apprehensions ; and was found to have no eyes but for the adversary whom his whole soul was bent upon meeting, nor any circumspectio n but for the possibility of a reply which he was resolved to cut off. It is probable, however; that this defect in his character as a politician had greatly increased as he grew older. In early times he was among the more forward of the Re formers. When he quitted the bar he offered himself as a candidate for several vacant seats, and was unsuccessful. He attended the debates at the East India-I:muse as a pro prietor, and took an active part in them. He was an assi duous member of the " Society of Friends of the People," and drew up the much and justly celebrated petition in which that useful body laid before the House of Commons all the more striking particulars of its defective title to the office of representing the people, which that House then, as now, but with far less reason, assumed. He con tested the boreugh of Southwark more than once, and was seated ultimately in 1796, and by a Committee, before which he conducted his own case with an ability so strik ing, that all who witnessed it at once augured most favour ably of his prospects in the House, and confessed that his leaving the bar had alone prevented him from filling the highest place among the ornaments of Westminster-hall. In that contest his acuteness, his plain and homely sense, his power of exposing a sophism, or ridiculing a refine ment, shone conspicuous ; and his inimitable manner—a manner above all others suited to his style of speaking and thinking, and singularly calculated to affect a popular audience—was added to the other qualities which lie showed himself possessed of, and by which he won and kept hold of the Committee's undivided attention. His entry into the House of Commons was made at a sufficiently remarkable period of time. The Whig Oppo sition had just taken the most absurd and inconsistent, as well as most unjustifiable step, which ever party or. public men resorted to, in order to show the bitterness of their disappointment, to justify their enemies in deducing all their actions from selfish motives, and to lend the doctrine some plausibility, which the enemies of all party connection hold when they deny its use, and regard it as a mere associa tion for interested purposes, not dictated by any public principle, but dressing itself falsely and fratidulently in that decent garb. They had retired or seceded from their at tendance in Parliament upon the very grounds which should have chained them faster to their seats—namely, that the Government was ruining the interests and trampling upon the liberties of the country, and that the people were not sufficiently alive to the situation of their affairs. If anything could add to the folly as well as the im propriety of this measure, it was the incompleteness of the secession ; for instead of leering Parliament, and thus enabling the people to choose more faithful guardians of their interests, these men all retained their seats, kept fast hold of their personal privileges, and preserved the option of returning upon any fitting or temporary occasion to the places which they left empty and ready. The Irish Par liament afforded upon this occasion one of the two instances of its superiority to our own, which the whole history of that bad and corrupt assembly presents. The Opposi tion there, with Mr. Grattan at its head, vacated their seats and remained out of Parliament for some years. Strange that the place where political purity was the most rare, where true patriotism was ever at its lowest ebb, where the whole machinery of corruption—all that men call jobbing and faction, was proverbially hereditary and constitutional—and where it has always been so usual to expect as little correctness of reasoning as consistency and purity of conduct—an example should have been afforded of just and rational conduct, and self-denial, upon the point of jobbing itself, which the patriots of England were neither wise enough nor disinterested enough to follow ! This phenomenon, otherwise hard to be explained, is accounted for by the character of the illustrious man whom we have named as leader of the Irish Whigs. N Tbe absence of the regular leaders of the Opposition and their followers from Parliament gave Mr. Ti erney a ready opening to distinction upon his entering the House of Commons—an opening of which far less sagacity and resources than he possessed might have taken advantage. He became at once, and from the necessity of the case, in some sort the leader of the Opposition. The subject to which he mainly directed himself was the financial depart ment, but without at all confining his exertions to questions of this description. The clearness of his understanding, however, and his business-like habits, give him a peculiar advantage upon such matters ; and he retained his hold over it, and, as it were, an almost exclusive possession of it, during the whole of his Parliamentary life. It seems strange to look back upon the hands out of which he took this branch of the Opposition business. Mr. Sheridan was the person to whom he succeeded, and who really must be admitted to have been, in every respect as moderately qua lified for performing it as any one of his great abilities could well be. But it must not be supposed that the secession of the regular party left all finance questions, or all questions of any kind, in the hands of him whom they considered as an officious unwelcome substitute, and affected to look down upon as an indifferent makeshift in the bands of the Ministers ; ever ready to catch any sem blance of a regular opposing party, for the convenience which it affords in conducting the public business. When the Irish rebellion, and still more, when the Union, and soon after the failure of the Dutch expedition seemed to af ford a chance of " doing something," they came down and joined in the debate. To Mr. Tierney was left the weari some and p a i n f u l, b ut not unimportant duty of watch i ng Lily the p rocee di ngs o f the Government and of the lions", in which it. now ruled with an absolute sway. Whate o ver b was most irk some an d l a b or i ous, most than kl ess an d a . - An inquest was held last night in the Ncw-road, Marylebone, on the body of a you b ne man named Heather, who committed suicide by throwing himself into the Regent's Canal. Deceased had been barman at a public-house, but having been guilty of various acts of theft, had been threatened with his discharge; he had also been addicted to drinking, and when last seen alive was much intoxicated. Verdict— " Temporary insanity." , Late on Friday night' l ast, or earl y on Saturday e a r s el way, and carried and killed a h e if er morning, some villains bro ke o p en a stable belon g in g to Wm. calf by ebcvriilpt,piiini ripping the oiperishe n i opt' tile mostho m u St. T A way half the carcase, leaving the other half behind. The calf was only one year old.— Western Times. We have been informed that the mausoleum at Bomond Park, Wilts, the seat of the Marquis of Lansdowne, is to be cons,7crated by the Lord Bishop of Salisbury, on _the 31st instant, and on the same nay a plot of ground, surrocind i:ig the Church at Foxham, i n the •h - pans of Brembill (the r , 31 ,1, ;Ice of one of the livii , r e, poets of Great Britain),is be consecrated afor the inhabitants of Foxba m , who hithetto have used the mother church, for that purpose. —Dorset County Chronicle. The other was on the Regency 1788-9. scure, in the drudgery of daily attendance, and the discomfi ture of small divisions, fell to his share. It was only when the reward of such toils and vexations appeared in view, upon some great occasion presentin g itself for assaulting a Minister invincible in Parliament, but defeated with dis credit in his schemes, and assailing him with the support of the country as well as of fortune, that Mr. Tierney w as quickly nor yet very gently put on one side, to make way for the greater men, who had been engaged in any pursuit rather than that of their country's favour, and doing any service hut that which they owed to their constituents. With what front they could have offered themselves again to those constituents had a general election befallen them before some change had happened in their policy, it would be difficult to conjecture. But, fortunately for them as for the country, the Administration of Mr. Addington afforded a fair op portunity, perhaps a pretext, of which they were desirous, for resurnicg their attendance in Parliament; and no one has ever since, in a tone more audible than a whisper, ven tured to mention the experiment of secession as among the ways and means for bettering the condition of a party. It must, however, be added, that when the election of 1802 came, the people, by showing an entire forgetful fiess of the greatest violation of public duty ever com mitted by their representatives, and never once mention ing the secession on any one occasion, exhibited an in constancy and neglect of their own best interests, truly painful to those who deem them not only the object, but the origin of all political power ; and who moreover hold it to be impossible that any power bestowed upon men can be well or safely executed•without a continuance of whole some popular control. The comfort which we now have under this unpleasant recollection is derived from an as surance that such never can be the case in the present times. No man, or class of men, dare now leave their Parliamentary post, without at the same time throwing up their delegated trust ; and whoever should attempt to re peat the game of 1797 in our times would find the doors of Parliament closed against him, should he he rash e2ough again to seek admission through any place having a rat ,ta a ly of electors. In the time; ef which we have been speaking Mr. Tier. ney was ol3e of those LVhigs who, partly through hostility to Mr. Pitt, and partly froi: a sincere gratitude for the peace abroad, and the mild and ta"s'ustitutional Government at home, obtained for the country by 3.7 r. _Acklington, first supported, and Afterwards formally joined !hat Minister, upon his rupture with his patron and predecessor. It was unfortunate that Mr. Tierney should have taken of "e moat on the eye of his new leader committing as great aft error, and as fatal, as ever could be imputed to his warlike adversary. Mr. Addington having been joined by Mr. Tierney late in 1802, plunged the country, early in 1803 again into war ; for reasons which, if they had any force,. should have prevented him from making peace the year before ; and even if Napoleon was desirous of breaking the treaty, care was taken by the manner of the quarrel which we fastened upon him to give him every appearance, in the eyes of the world, of having been reluctaatly forced into a renewal of hostilities. The removal of Mr. Tierney from the Opposition to the Ministerial benches was not attended with any in crease either of his weight in the country, or of his powers in debate. No man certainly had a right to charge him with any violation of party duty ; for he had never been connected with the regular Whig Opposition, and had been treated upon all occasions with little respect by their leaders. Yet in his opinions he agreed with them ; they had always professed the same principles upon those great questions, whethe r of foreign or domestic policy, whLeh divided public men ; and he was now in office with statesmen ;alio only dif fered from those whom he had always opposed in tile inferi ority of their capacity; in having done their patron's bidding by restoring peace and the Constitution, both of which he had suspended, and in refusing to go out and let him in again when that turn was served. There was little ground, then , for drawing any distinction between the two classes of Pitt ites ; upon principle none, only a personal difference di vided them ; and to that difference Mr. Tierney was wholly a stranger, until he chose to take a part in it by taking office upon it: But, as has often happened to men who thus place themselves in what our French neighbours term a " false position," his weight in the House was not more remarkably lessened than his gift of debating was impaired. He never seemed to be thoroughly pos sessed of himself, or to feel at home, after taking his seat on the Treasury Bench, among the Jenkinsons, the Brags, the Yorkes, the Percevals, and other supporters of Mr.. Addington's somewhat feeble, though certainly very useful Administration. It was drolly said of the latter--in re ference to the rather useless acquisition which he appeared to have made—that he resembled the worthy but not very acute Lord who bought Punch. Upon more than one occasion words of a graver character were heard from the great master of sarcasm to convey the same idea. When, in an attempt to defend the naval administration of the Government against Mr. Pitt's unmeasured attacks, their new champion, with signal infelicity, adventured upon some personal jeers* at their assailants' expense, the latter re marked in very good humour, "that he had not found him quite so formidable an antagonist in his novel situation, though he nowise questioned his capacity for Ministerial exertions, and should wait until his infant aptitudes had ex panded to their destined fulness.". The overthrow of the Addington Ministry soon restored Mr. Tierney to the ranks of Opposition ; and his union with the Whigs after wards becam e so complete, that he acted for some years after the death of Mr. Whitbread and Mr. Ponsonby a s their r ea l l ea d er i n the Commons, and during one Session was installed formally as their chief. The instances to which we have just adverted may truly be said to be the only failures in Mr. Tierney's whole Par liamentary career. For he was one of the surest and most equal speakers that ever mingled in debate ; and his style of speaking was very enviable in this particular. It seemed so easy and so natural to the man, as to be always completely at his command, depending on no happy and almost involuntary flights of fancy, or moods of mind, or any of the other incidents that affect and limit the inspire- • tions of genius ; hardly even upon fire caught from an ad versary's speech, or an accident in the debate, and which is wont to kindle the eloquence of the greater orators. Whoever heard him upon any occasion had the impression that such he would be upon all ; and that whenever he chose it, he could make as good a speech, and of the same kind. Nor was that excellence small, or that description of oratory contemptible. It was very effective at all times, at . some times of very great force indeed. His power of plain and lucid statement was not easily to be surpassed ; and this served him in special stead upon questions of finance and trade, which he so often handled. His reasoning was equally plain and distinct. He was as argumentative a speaker as any one could be who set so little value upon subtilty of all sorts, and who always greatly preferred the shorter roads towardaa conclusion to laboured ratiocination ; and quick retorts, suggested by the course of the discussion, to any thing elaborate or long. In these retorts, whether of allusion, or repartee, or personal attack, his excellence was very great. When occasion required it he could rise into a strain of very effective and striking declamation ; and although never attempting anv flight of a lofty kind, yet never once failing to reach whatever he aimed at. His wit, or his humour, or his drollery, it would be very diffi cult to describe, nor easy to say how it should be classed. Perhaps, of the three words we have used, in order to be sure of comprehending or hitting it, the second is the most appropriate. He had the great requisites of a powerful debater—quickness in taking his ground, and boldness in holding it ; and could instantly' perceive an enemy's weak ness and his own course to take advantage of it. But we now speak of him when on his legs ; for the defect in his character, of which we before made mention, followed him into the House of Commons, and he was wanting in decision and vigour there also until he rose, when a new man seemed to stand before you. * If we mention the nature of these attempts, it must be after every distinct and peremptory protest against being under stood to give them as samples of the humour, and indeed wit, in which Mr. Tierney peculiarly excelled, for they were ex ceptions to it, and were his only failures. He spoke of Mr. Pitt's motion as " smelling of a contract," and even called him " the Right Hon. Shipwright," in allusion to his proposal to build men-of-war in the merchants' .yards. On one occasion he fell by a less illustrious hand—but yet the hand of a wit. When alluding to the difficulties the Foxites and Pittites had of passing over to join each other in attacking the Addington Ministry, Mr. Tierney (forgetting at the moment bow easily he had himself overcome a like difficulty in joining that Mint str3 ) alluded to the puzzle of the fox and the goose, and did not clearly expound his idea. Whereupon Mr. Dudley North said, " It's himself he means —who left the fox to go over to the goose, and put the ba g o f oats i n hi s poc k et. " His failu res are told in three li n es ; b ut a vo l ume would not ho ld t he suc cessful efforts of his drollery, both in debate and in society. .~ ~~